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So for my March 7, Wednesday 10pm performance of ‘Binge Thinking’ at the Adelaide Fringe next week I’m inviting people to come and Tweet live during the show. Using the tags: #bingefringe #adlfringe

What’s so special about this? To my knowledge, it hasn’t been done before, in this format. That is, I’ll be performing the show as per normal, with breaks to address the Tweets, as read out by an on-stage assistant. The show will very likely run over an hour, and hopefully it’ll be awesome.

Really, I’ve got no idea how it’ll go, because I haven’t done it before. At best, it’ll be amazing. At the least, you’ll be able to say, ‘That happened. And I was there. Woohoo’.

People willing to Tweet will be able to come to the show for free, and since there are sections of the show where I bemoan how much time people spend on Twitter instead of reading books, it could get very interesting.

Everyone willing to tweet gets a free ticket, unless there are none left.

1 Comment

Dear Maria,I have an appreciation for the dcroematic frenzy of this seemingly overcrowded process. I am not affraid of sharing space with other artists. The idea of art is not for the priviliged few. As well, the beauty (even of art) is in the eye of the beholder; therefore, who is more qualified than the general public to judge art? Phony experts , perhaps?Further more, everyone, who creates anything, should have an accessible forum to promote their ideas; if you look closely, you may gain a true appreciation for art. I have witnessed feeble, practically blind experts assessing art, pronouncing it genuine or fake, valuable or valueless with one blind side glance how about that? Do you own any art works judged in that manner?At one of my exhibitions I was told by one observer pointing at my painting that people like that (meaning the old little me) should be forbidden to paint . Why?Hmmm.. did I get upset? No, the next visitor pointed at the same painting and proclaimed I want three of those . She could not have three of those , there was only one original, of course.I grew up in society in which artists had been made or destroyed by the power of state, let’s not let anyone go there again.